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Investigators said it happened around 9 p.m. Monday at the Food Lion on Garner Road.

Kim Chapman said she was loading up her groceries in her car when she said a man approached her.

Chapman said he said he needed groceries, but she told him she didn't have money. Chapman said that's when the man started helping her load her car and touched her.

"He touched me, inappropriately, across my butt and I got scared and I said ‘Tell you what, sir. Let me get my groceries in the car and I'll take you back in the store to buy you groceries,'” Chapman said.

Chapman said she thought if she could just get in the store, she could get some help.

“We got up to the register and the lady is standing there. I’m looking at her like ‘help me’ and she's like, she's trying to read my signs and I'm like ‘I don't know him’ and she goes, ‘You don't know him?’ I go (shakes head) and she said, ‘Did he ask you to come in and buy groceries? I'm like, 'Yes,'” Chapman said.

Chapman said as she was paying for the groceries, the man walked outside, and she said the manager asked him to leave.

The suspect Chapman describes seems familiar to investigators.

Spartanburg Public Safety Capt. Regina Nowak said several days ago, a young woman was also approached in the Food Lion parking lot by a man who followed her inside.

"He left the store and went and stood by her car she called somebody to come meet her and walk her to her car and he left. I have a feeling that's the same person, general same description,” Nowak said.

Meanwhile, Chapman said she just hopes no one else experiences what she did.

"He had no right to touch me and he had no right to approach me that way. When I told him I didn't have money, he should have walked away, he should have let me be,” Chapman said.